Dallas’s Evan Daugherty, 31, who made his fairy tale film debut with Snow White and the Huntsman(a hit on screen, now on DVD) is hurtling into his roller coaster second act, which looks every bit as promising as the first. No, we don’t know if a Snow White sequel is in the cards for the son of Dallas Children’s theater’s resident playwright Linda Daugherty. But his screenplay for Divergent, the first book in the Veronica Roth trilogy that many are projecting to be the next Hunger Games, will start shooting April 1.

Academy Award winner Kate Winslet has joined the cast, giving it some critical heft, along with up and coming Shailene Woodley, who won raves for George Clooney’s The Descendants.

Meanwhile, Evan’s busy mom is putting the finishing touches on her new DCT play, Teen Brain: The Musical, opening Feb. 15 at the company’s Rosewood Center for Family Arts (I’ll have more about that in next week’s Family Fun column). It features music and lyrics by Evan’s old buddy Nick Martin (as kids, they played garden gnomes in Linda’s Cinderella years ago along with parts in DCT’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever).

Evan just bought and moved into a home in Hollywood, right by the Hollywood sign in October, his mother says. But ever the good son, he came home for Christmas (and saw the DCT shows); she says he’s planning to come home to see Teen Brain, too.